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• Automatic Updates (developers)
• APT (dev)
• APT Pinning (dev)
• APT Repository (dev)
• apt-revoker (dev)

Concept for developing software to revoke APT signing keys in case these are compromised.

Materials

UNFINISHED (barely started)

Materials - pieces of information and links that should be included in the draft.

keyserver discussion

Reread this whole thread: sks-devel thread (December 2013)

find and reread this discussion

sks-devel message (December 2013)

>> Good question. Probably, but some keyserver operators might view >> it as rude. Best to ask on address@hidden

> Will do.

separate DNS

aptrevoker.debian.org so this can be turned off / redirected in case keyservers cannot handle the load

/etc/apt-revoker.d

The code for downloading the revocation certificates should be configurable.

Download the signing key revocation certificates from:

• version 1 - download from clearnet keyservers
• version 2 - optionally download from onion keyservers
• version 3 - optionally download from Freenet, or something that implements a permanent takedown attack defense

Proposal

TODO:

• Take any of the above bullet points one by one and convert those into good wording that can be posted on the debian-devel mailing list.

Related

• Dev/project-news
• Permanent Takedown Attack Defender, proposal to defend a permanent takedown threat

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